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The Snout
Episode 2 of 4
Can the skint 1920s tipster plot revenge on a local informant and end up a winner too? Stars Roy Hudd and Andrew Sachs. From 1996.
Can the skint 1920s tipster plot revenge on a local informant and end up a winner too?
Roy Hudd stars as a self-styled "sporting authority" in 1920's Camden Town in London.
Edgar Wallace's 1924 novel dramatised by Richard Quick.
Narrator …. Freddie Jones
Educated Evans …. Roy Hudd
Inspector Pine …. Andrew Sachs
The Miller …. Michael Roberts
Mrs Rankin …. Pat Coombs
Joe Taskett …. David Battley
Albert Shanks …. Simon Treves
Mildred Lee …. Rosemary Martin
Ginger Vennett …. Ian Targett
Music by Philip Glassborow and Rick Cardinall.
Director: Dirk Maggs
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 1996.
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